CB may have been re-written, but login module really needs more attention. Both in function and in CSS. Form aesthetic, le me just show you the out of the box here (screen shot attache modules (Joomla on top, CB on bottom) using our standard template. CB module is ugly, looks unfinished, etc.

Your template likely has a layout for Joomlas login module. It won't have a layout for CBs login module so they're going to look completely different. This isn't something we can address in CB directly. You need to create a layout for the CB login module that better fits your template. Our default layouts are designed to mimic Joomlas default templates; this includes the CSS classes and nearly all the HTML structure (few exceptions as we've some triggers, links, post/pre text, etc..). For example see our login module out of the box next to Joomlas using default Joomla template.




What you're wanting we can't do, because we did not develop your template and it is not the Joomla default template.

Then there is the functionality. The short version is the CB login module does not direct traffic correctly. On my site, it almost always directs a person to their profile page. I setup a redirect to just index.php, and that will send them to the home page. Neither option is acceptable to us and seemingly I cannot fix it.

Leave the login redirect parameter empty and it'll send them to the previous page they were on if possible. As long as our system plugin is installed when you access an access denied page that'd normally show you the Joomla login it will instead show the CB login and send Joomlas return URL to CB so the user can be returned correctly. I've just retested this behavior as working fine. So unless you've something else doing a redirect that's the behavior you should expect. If it's always sending to profile page then you've a redirect setup somewhere.

With CB2.0 and the forced CB Login module, you login and then are taken to CB Profile page. If you are lucky (I seriously have no idea why it works half the time) you are taken to the Login Redirect page which is just our home page. Both are unacceptable.

That shouldn't be the case. You should be sent back to your previous location. This is functioning in all my tests so my guess is you've a configuration issue somewhere. Likely a login redirect parameter is configured in a CB login module, which is being picked up by the login page (it uses the first published CB login module it can find for login page parameters).

In addition to the module login redirect there's the first login redirect found in CB > Configuration > Registration, which is used on a users first login only.

Also ensure the "System - Community Builder" plugin within Extensions > Plugin Manager is enabled as it handles passing Joomlas return URL to CB. Passing of return URL is enabled by default, but maybe yours was disabled for some reason so you may want to check the parameters of "System - Community Builder" as well and ensure "Pass Return URLs" is set to "Enabled".

quartz wrote: It would really help if you used the same words as on the site page when explaining where to change something.
I cannot see any words relating to "registration set to show login within CB" on the CB > Configuration > Registration page.